Member Login

E-mail:    Password:  




 TitleDate AddedCompany
whitepaper Getting Ready for IFRS2009-10-01 Epicor Software
  Successful businesses around the globe have shown time and again that what at first glance may appear as a difficult and costly change in regulation can be an opportunity for efficiency and market growth. The same is true of the move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Innovative and successful organizations around the world have seized the opportunity that IFRS flexibility offers to rationalize and improve accounting procedures, and align the fiscal policies with reporting structures and internal processes. This white paper presents how to prepare IFRS including what technology considerations to keep in mind.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Security Administration, Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Smooth Transition: Preparing for IFRS2009-10-01 Epicor Software
  The SEC proposes that 2014 be the first year for US registered companies to file their financial statements in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) format. This white paper covers how to effectively managing the this upcoming transition to IFRS. You will learn how to form the IFRS transition team, set the roles of the IFRS project team members and use your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to manage this transition.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Security Administration, Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper AT&T Inc. Upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to Centralize Accounting Processes2009-10-01 Oracle
  AT&T Inc. wanted to upgrade the company's existing Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to accommodate recent communications industry acquisitions and more easily incorporate international operating companies. The challenge was to support centralization of business operations to achieve greater consistency, data reliability, and global visibility. AT&T Inc. worked with Oracle Consulting to upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to accommodate the company's recent acquisitions as well as its international companies, operating in 85 countries with more than 70 currencies and enabled users to perform multiple tasks - including entering and paying invoices - across operating units.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Managing Risk & Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Bus Planning2009-09-14 Oracle
  A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning iterations, accelerate decision making, and ensure that your plans are more actionable and your forecasts are more accurate, regardless of market volatility. Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management, Financial Services, Financial Services		   
whitepaper Panostaja Oyj Provides a Competitive Edge for Subsidiaries With Effective Reporting System2009-09-01 Oracle
  Panostaja Oyj wanted to obtain a scalable and reliable financial reporting system to meet the needs of the quickly growing business, which had doubled in annual revenue and number of business areas due to mergers and acquisitions and reduce the amount of manual work both in external and internal reporting, and manage staff risk by reducing dependency on the presence of certain key employees. The challenge was to build a system where the subsidiaries produce their own monthly reports, and give management enough time to analyze key figures and take prompt action regarding problem areas. Panostaja Oyj worked with Oracle Partner Hy Partner Solutions Oy to implement Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management, benefiting from its inherent scalability and powerful Web analysis features.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper Hyro Asia Improves Its Profile, Gets Closer to Top Accounts With Integrated CRM System2009-09-01 Oracle
  A wholly-owned subsidiary of Australian Securities Exchange-listed Hyro Limited, Hyro Asia develops and implements digital services for use across multiple channels including online, mobile, and interactive television. Hyro Asia deployed a packaged CRM solution to better dissect its revenue stream and identify customers that were unprofitable. Hyro Asia moved away from the platform and persevered with its own in-house-developed CRM system before deploying Oracle CRM On Demand over a period of two weeks in midyear 2009.

Tags: Financial Services		   
whitepaper Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting2009-09-01 Oracle
  Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team has time to review consolidated regional results before submission to the U.S. head office. The challenge was to extend and improve management reporting across all areas of the business at individual and consolidated group level. Cliffs Natural Resources engaged Oracle Certified Partner M-Power Solutions to implement Oracle's Hyperion solutions to aid the company in defining requirements; designing, building, testing, and deploying the solution; and deployment project management and Contributed to a shortening of the month-end cycle from seven days to four days, by using Hyperion, not spreadsheets, to derive monthly management and statutory results.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper Google Apps 2nd Wind ROI Case Study2009-09-01 Google
  Nucleus Research conducted an ROI study with 2nd Wind Exercise and found that this 300-user specialty retail company achieved an ROI of 837% and a one-month payback. 2nd Wind replaced its existing Microsoft Exchange environment with Google Apps,reducing IT costs while improving cross-company communication and collaboration.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper C&S Migrates to a Common Scalable Platform, Driving Efficiency and Reliability While Improving Controls2009-09-01 Oracle
  C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene wanted to control user access to critical data and monitor financial processes without manual intervention and maintain data continuity across multiple systems. The challenge was to eliminate requisite manual coding in maintaining critical mainframe systems and increase employee productivity across the organization to execute operations more efficiently. C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene reviewed the objectives and strategies of the finance; payroll; trade management; and, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes and assessed process challenges and identified and prioritized capabilities required to address the challenges.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper 5 Ways to Reduce IT Audit Tax2009-08-26 Lumension
  Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. Combine the two in a risk and compliance scenario and you have the onerous "audit tax," a figurative term used to describe the expenses a company incurs when deploying resources and manpower to satisfy the burgeoning set of internal and external compliance and audit mandates. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the audit tax burden. This whitepaper outlines five methods organizations should consider to streamline their compliance efforts and thereby reduce their audit tax.

Tags: Financial Services, Data Tools, Business Functions, Data Tools